From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 12 15:25:51 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F58016A41F for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 15:25:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kiffin.gish@planet.nl) Received: from post-22.mail.nl.demon.net (post-22.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6AD043D5E for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 15:25:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kiffin.gish@planet.nl) Received: from gish.demon.nl ([83.160.27.223]:15467 helo=[192.168.1.33]) by post-22.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1Ex4Kg-0007GN-1f for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 15:25:46 +0000 From: Kiffin Gish To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <1137079278.821.5.camel@localhost> References: <1137079278.821.5.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:25:46 +0100 Message-Id: <1137079546.821.7.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Making shared libraries findable ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 15:25:51 -0000 On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 16:21 +0100, Kiffin Gish wrote: > I have some shared libraries blah.so etc. that I want to be available to > other programs. They are located in a separate directory from the > default linux compat stuff. > > I guess I could create a link using ln -s, but every time blah.so is > rebuilt the link will not longer be valid. > > What's the standard way of taking care of this? > > Thanks alot in advance. > Why don't you try ldconfig -m /path_to_blah ? -- Kiffin Gish